Pub Date : 2024-03-28DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2024.2332762
Curd Knüpfer, Matthias Hoffmann
In many contemporary democracies, digital networks on the far-right have established themselves as “alternatives” to liberal institutions. Within this nexus of parties, hyper-partisan news, and soc...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-17DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2024.2329613
Adrien Petitpas
This paper aims to clarify the mechanism linking media coverage and advertising to electoral volatility. It is argued that the link is indirect rather than direct: Parties’ communication affects el...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2024.2325426
Ernesto de León, Mykola Makhortykh, Silke Adam
While there is growing academic attention to readers of hyperpartisan, alternative, and conspiracy (HAC) media, our understanding of these sites has developed in separate bodies of work. We make a ...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2024.2326130
Kevin Munger, Angel Villegas-Cruz, Jorge Gallego, Mateo Vásquez-Cortés
Digital literacy affects how people use the internet. However, we argue that the concept of “digital literacy” cannot usefully be applied to all internet users; there is simply too much heterogenei...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-09DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2024.2325423
Michael Chan, Jingjing Yi
Studies addressing the normative questions of whether social media use positively or negatively affects citizens’ levels of democratic engagement and satisfaction with democracy have produced mixed...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2024.2317274
Senja Post, Nils Bienzeisler
People’s trust in science is generally high. Yet in public policy disputes invoking scientific issues, people’s trust in science is typically polarized, aligned with their political preferences. Th...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2024.2321539
Judith Spirig
Does acquiring a media company pay off politically? A growing body of literature suggests that politically motivated media owners shape media coverage and that media coverage affects political beha...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2024.2308601
Teresa Völker, Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti
How do far-right actors and issues structure public debates and become mainstream over time? Previous research has shown that far-right actors are central actors in political conflicts in Western E...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-21DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2024.2317951
Yingdan Lu, Yilang Peng
The popularity of camera phones, the availability of photo-editing apps, and the rise of visually oriented social media platforms have made it convenient for citizens to produce and circulate visua...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-20DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2024.2314604
Philipp Mendoza, Alessandro Nai, Linda Bos
More aggressive campaigning styles focusing on criticizing opponents (negativity) or using inappropriate language to vilify opponents (incivility) tend to be disliked by voters, and remain thus ris...
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